Love And Light - SANDRO PERRI by Constellation Records

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Reviews
"The compositions that multi-instrumentalist and borderline musical genius Sandro Perri creates on his latest LP, Impossible Spaces, are more than simply jaw dropping and immensely enjoyable. The songs are a lifeboat in the middle of a seemingly endless ocean of music, trying to preserve not only what we love about music, but what we love about the individualism of art."
HeroHill


Ronen Givony is a New York City music curator and writer and wrote the following to accompany the release of Impossible Spaces:

By definition, every music lover is also, inevitably, an evangelist. That is to say: beyond the tiny group of artists that everyone more or less agrees on, there exists a perpetually overflowing pool of musicians who, for whatever reason, never quite manage to earn the audience and attention the evangelist believes them to deserve. Inescapably, the evangelist's is a personal and subjective project, and rightly so, as one listener's undiscovered gem is another's undistinguished detritus. Nevertheless, it remains an open question, this thorny subject of art as oligarchy or meritocracy: whether deserving artists, regardless of resources, eventually do reach the audience they "deserve" — whether it is in fact true, as the old saying goes, that the cream does ultimately rise to the top — or if certain artists are unjustly consigned by the fates to recognition only late in their careers, or posthumously, if at all.

All of which is a circuitous preamble to a more modest thesis, that being: for this writer, the very top of my own personal evangelical list — the artist I most wish I could strap to a van and send out on the road with a guitar and a self-replenishing supply of CDs, so that his music might be better known to the world — is the Toronto songwriter Sandro Perri. Happily, Sandro's new album, Impossible Spaces — his first release since 2007, and, not coincidenta.......
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